WWI
Understand:
· MAIN reasons for the war???? How does the war start?
· How and why does America get involved?
· People and Concepts
o Archduke Franz Ferdinand
o Gavrilo Princip
o Balkans
o Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
o Von Schlieffen Plan/Significance of Belgium
o New Weapons
o Western Front and Eastern Front
o Trench Warfare
o Zimmerman Telegram
o Lusitania
o Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
o Woodrow Wilson/14 Points/League of Nations
o Versailles Treaty
o War guilt clause
o New nations created
WWI Vocab
o Neutral
o Mobilize
o Ultimatum
o Rationing
o U-boat
o Propaganda
o Reparations
o Stalemate
o Armistice
Russian Revolution
· What was life like in Russia?
· End of Romanov rule – Why? Why does Russia become communist?
Russian Rev People and Concepts
o Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra
o Russo-Japanese War – significance?
o Bolsheviks
o Lenin vs Trotsky
o Stalin
o 5 Year Plan
o Collectivization
o Totalitarian Government
Shifts in Power
· Why do independence movements begin?
· Gandhi’s non violent movement – philosophy and effects
· Communism in China?
Between the Wars - Events
o Indian National Congress and Muslim League
o Gandhi
o Passive Resistance
o Boycott
o Amritsar massacre
o Salt March
o Creation of India and Pakistan 1948
o Chiang Kai Shek and nationalists
o Mao and the Communists
o The Long March
o Japanese Invasion of China
o Ottoman Empire – what happens to them?
Between the Wars – Essential Questions
· What was post WWI Europe like? Who were the new powerhouses?
· Great depression and the three main reasons for it – What effect did it have worldwide?
Between the Wars - People and Concepts
o Hyperinflation
o Weimar Republic and instability of new democracies in Europe
o Stock market crash
o Overproduction and under consumption
o FDR/New Deal
o Fascism/Mussolini/Il Duce
o Hitler
o Nuremberg Laws
o Kristellnacht
o Nazism
o Anti-Semitism
o Rhineland
o Sudetenland
o Munich Conference
o Appeasement/Neville Chamberlain
o Lend-Lease Act
o Allies and Axis Powers
WWII
· Japans reason for going to war
· Key battles and significance – Britain, Midway, Stalingrad, Dunkirk and Norway
WWII People and Concepts
o Nonaggression pact
o Pearl Harbor
o Winston Churchill
o Stalin
o Emperor Hirohito
o General Dwight D Eisenhower
o Theaters of War – What are the main three?
o D-Day – date and importance
o V-E Day
o Kamikaze
o Island hopping
o Suez Canal
o Hiroshima and Nagasaki
o Internment Camps
o Genocide
· Rape of Nanking
· Holocaust – significance in terms of lives lost
· Concentration/death camps
· Mengele
· Himmler
Cold War
Essential Questions:
ü How did the resolution of WWII lead to the cold war?
ü How did the policies of the two superpowers dictate foreign policy?
Cold War - Key Terms and Concepts
o Superpowers
o Arms Race
o Space Race
o Berlin Airlift
o Berlin Wall
o Cuban Missile Crisis
o Warsaw Pact vs. NATO
o Marshall Plan
o East vs. West
o Buffer Zone
o Iron Curtain
o Satellite nations
o United Nations
o Nuremburg Trials
o Fall of Berlin Wall
o Fall of Communism throughout Europe
Cold War - Asia:
Essential Questions:
ü How did Communism impact the development of Asia after World War II?
ü What Human Rights issues have occurred in Asia?
ü Life under communism in Asia
· China and its split with the Soviet Union
· Korea and the Korean War and Modern North Korea
· Vietnam
· Cambodia
· KEY TERMS/KEY PEOPLE:
§ Containment
§ Collectivization
§ Mao Zedong
§ Great Leap Forward/Cultural Revolution
§ Vietnam War
§ Ho Chi Minh
§ Tiananmen Square
§ Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge
Africa (found in chapter 20.2)
- End of Imperialism in Africa
- Apartheid what was it and what impact did it have?
- African National Congress and Nelson Mandela
- Genocides: Rwanda-Hutus vs. Tutsis, Darfur: Janjaweed
You have a map of Europe, Asia and a world map on the final exam. Here are 2 of the 3 maps: